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Epson 9-pin driver with 240x216 resolution?

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From: Paul H. Hargrove
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 17:00
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I have recently compiled and installed Ghostscript 2.4.1 and am very
pleased with it.  I do, however, have one question (with 2 parts).

part 1:
I noticed in the comments in the b&w epson printer driver, that the
ability of many/most of the epson 9-pin printers to do 216 dpi vertically
by using fractional vertical feeds was not implemented.  I was wondering
if there was an updated gdevepsn.c that could do this.  I am very pleased
with the output on a laserjet, but find the 240x72 resolution of my
epson printer to be less than ideal.  Even the 6 passes per line required
to get 240x216 from my epson is faster than the 'floppy net' connection
I have to a laserjet (i.e. write file to floppy and carry it to another
machine to use the laserjet.  Now it is a walk across the hall, but when
I return to school it will be 1/2 mile uphill and cost me $0.15/page.)

part 2:
If such a driver does not exist, I may try to write one myself.  I took
a look at the existing driver, and noticed that there is more to it than
I had thought.  If I must write the driver myself, is there a guide I
could get to writing one, or must I try 'vi gdev*.c' as my tutorial?

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Paul H. Hargrove, speaking for myself.
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From: hargrove@ramirez.mitre.org (Paul H. Hargrove)
Subject: Epson 9-pin driver with 240x216 resolution?
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.170052.19637@linus.mitre.org>
Keywords: epson driver
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Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 17:00:52 GMT
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